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Williams tried to solve these problems with massive rewriting; the result was “The Eccentricities of a Nightingale,” which puts the main characters in a rather different framework.

From New York Times • May 3, 2018

He directed the original production of Williams’s “The Eccentricities of a Nightingale” on Broadway in 1976.

From New York Times • May 8, 2017

With “The Eccentricities of a Nightingale,” Tennessee Williams’ 1951 revision of his earlier play “Summer and Smoke,” Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice ends its 30th anniversary season on a quietly remarkable note.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2016

Eccentricities that might once have been charming can be unnerving.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2015

Eccentricities of costume might be forced on the English clergy by Protestant intolerance.

From Hyacinth by Birmingham, George A.